Comment by l33t7332273
18 hours ago
Less than 100 years later, we stand waiting for nuclear bombs guided by GPS to be launched when the authorization cryptographic certificate is verified.
18 hours ago
Less than 100 years later, we stand waiting for nuclear bombs guided by GPS to be launched when the authorization cryptographic certificate is verified.
Nuclear weapons (based on quantum mechanics and special relativity) were used less than 6 years after that quote.
And number theory was critical to breaking enigma. So they were all used within 5 years.
Was it? My understanding was that they didn’t use number theoretic approaches.
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